Jasmine rice beef broth, Peru beans,

Jasmine rice is mildly fragrant but it's a poor choice for risotto due its thin starch coating needed to form a sauce. Still very good and intensely beef flavored. So are the beans. These would be side dishes in some restaurants but tonight they are dinner.

A nutritionist told me that rice and beans together form complete essential proteins and I believe her. The woman is smart and fierce.

Beef pie

Pastie.

What did you call me?

Nothing. I said you look a bit parched. Perhaps a bit of broth to wet your whistle. 

Little dummkopf's ice cream

It's cream sloshed around with milk added, and vanilla and sugar also salt. 

No ice cream machine, no churning, no rock salt, no egg, no custard, no mixer, no heat. No extraneous flavor ingredients. Just pouring and sloshing around. 

* cream

* sugar

* milk

*vanilla

* dash of table salt

* freezing cold; either freezer, winter, whatever. 

It is insisted the milk be heated to dissolve the sugar, I say, just dissolve the sugar in cold milk and be thorough about it. That eliminates two steps of heating and re-chilling. 

Slosh around the cream to get a little air inside it. The more and longer it's sloshed then the more like whipped cream it becomes. Mix in milk to dilute and thin the effort. Cream not aerated then frozen is hard. Over aerated cream stays soft when frozen. This is a bit over aerated. It's a thing, once started whipping it's hard to stop.

Baked sliced potato with bacon and jalapeño

The mac and cheese with jalapeño and bacon is so good I wanted to try the same thing with potato.

Macaroni and cheese, bacon and jalapeño

I felt sorry for the UConn student who stumbled in drunk demanding to be fed. He was awful and way out of line but there is more going on not reported. His school costs $40,000 a year, he starts out his working life up to his neck in debt or somebody pays a huge bill and that is the single function of the food place, to keep the kids fed. One simple job. And such a fuss about hours. Seems to me the lad has every good reason to get himself properly smashed. And the whole time I was thinking, Man, that kid's got good ideas about mac and cheese, it sounded delicious. And it is.